AN ARTIST’S MODEL CARRIED OUT A CAMPAIGN OF
AN ARTIST’S MODEL CARRIED OUT A CAMPAIGN OF ‘FEAR AND
INTIMIDATION’ AGAINST A MUSWELL HILL MAN DURING A BITTER LONG-
RUNNING DISPUTE BETWEEN NEIGHBOURS, THE OLD BAILEY HEARD ON
TUESDAY.
PATRICK NEWELL, 24, THREATENED TO KILL HIS TERRIFIED VICTIM
AND FORCED HIM TO HAND OVER CASH DURING THE TWO-MONTH
PERSECUTION, IT WAS ALLEGED.
THE TROUBLE STARTED WHEN MALCOLM ROGERS, 36, OF PAGES LANE,
MUSWELL HILL, STARTED EXTENSIVE RENOVATION ON HIS NEW MUSWELL HILL
HOUSE.
AN ARGUMENT BROKE OUT BETWEEN HIM AND HIS NEIGHBOURS AND
CONTINUED DESPITE A THREE YEAR GAP WHEN MR ROGERS WENT ABROAD.
IT WAS ON HIS RETURN THAT TROUBLE FLARED IN THE FORM OF
NEWELL, IT WAS SAID.
‘MR ROGERS SAW TWO MEN APPROACH HIS HOUSE ONE DAY IN JULY LAST
YEAR.
‘ MR ANDREW CAMPBELL, PROSECUTING, TOLD THE COURT.
‘NEWELL SPOKE TO HIM AND SAID: ‘THEY HAVE SENT US AND SAY
YOU HAVE BEEN ANNOYING THEM,”’ ADDED COUNSEL.
THE MEN THREATENED TO KILL MR ROGERS AND TOLD HIM TO KEEP
AWAY FROM HIS NEIGHBOURS.
TWO DAYS LATER THEY RETURNED AND
REPEATED THE THREATS.
FURTHER TROUBLE FOLLOWED A FEW WEEKS LATER WHEN HE WAS PICKED
UP BY THE SCRUFF OF THE NECK BY NEWELL AND AGAIN
THREATENED.
‘THERE WAS MENTION OF MONEY.
NEWELL ASKED HIS VICTIM TO SIGN
A NOTE SAYING HE WOULD PAY OVER #1000.
THE MAN WAS SO FRIGHTENED
HE AGREED TO SIGN IT.
‘
MR ROGERS MOVED OUT OF HIS HOME THAT NIGHT AND STAYED WITH
FRIENDS BUT LATER HE RETURNED.
‘AT NIGHT HE LOCKED HIS BED-ROOM
DOOR AND SLEPT WITH A SWORD BY HIS SIDE,,’ SAID COUNSEL.
THE INTIMIDATION CONTINUED WITH NEWELL FOLLOWING HIS VICTIM ON
SEVERAL OCCASIONS REPEATING THE THREATS AND REMINDING MR ROGERS HE
KNEW WHERE HE WAS.
FINALLY MR ROGERS WENT TO POLICE WHEN NEWELL ALLEGEDLY DROVE
OFF IN HIS (MR ROGERS’) MERCEDES, AND NEWELL WAS ARRESTED.
NEWELL, OF CAVERSHAM ROAD, PALMERS GREEN DENIES BLACKMAILING
THE 36 YEARS OLD PROPERTY DEVELOPER OF PAGES LANE, MUSWELL HILL
BETWEEN NOVEMBER 1985 AND JANUARY 8 THIS YEAR.
HE FURTHER DENIES TAKING AND DRIVING AWAY THE MERCEDES.
THE CASE CONTINUES.
ENDS
